World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – Oct 2-8, 2023

Congress passed a short-term funding plan that omitted THIS military aid package, undercutting $6 billion in promised support.

Turkey attacked militant targets in northern Iraq in retaliation for a bombing outside the Interior Ministry in Ankara. The bombing was claimed by THIS group, considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the EU.

Indonesia launched a high-speed rail service, dubbed “Whoosh,” with support from THIS Chinese infrastructure development project.

Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley retired in a ceremony in which he swore in his successor, THIS U.S. Air Force officer whose mantra has been “Accelerate Change.”

U.S. Army soldier Travis King, a soldier who escaped military control and fled to THIS country was expelled and returned to the United States.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Andrei Troshev, a commander in THIS mercenary group and asked him to oversee the militia’s operations in Ukraine.

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to two Hungarian scientists for their work in THIS critical area.

France is to withdraw its ambassador and 1,500 troops from THIS country, ending a months-long stand-off since a coup that overthrew Mohamed Bazoum, the elected president, in July.

Canada's Parliament speaker, Anthony Rota, resigned after THIS incident in a parliamentary session that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy attended.

Funding for the widely successful AIDS relief program, called THIS, is under attack in Congress. Although it has no connection to reproductive healthcare opponents call for legislative language to prohibit AIDS care by organizations that also provide abortion services.